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KNEBWORTH (1946)

Service dates: 1946-1960

Official number: 180871

Shipping lines: GRAND UNION (SHIPPING)

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

06.02.1946
Launched.
12.06.1946
Completed as Knebworth for the Grand Union (Shipping) Company Ltd (a General Steam Navigation Company subsidiary company).
1960
Sold to the Limerick Steamship Company Ltd, Limerick, and renamed Dromineer.
1964
Sold to Harold B Dawe Ltd, St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada and renamed Domino Run.
1974
Sold to Domino Run Steamship Company Ltd, Piraeus, Greece, but registered in Georgetown, Cayman Islands.
1979
Renamed Mino although no owner recorded.
04.1998
Deleted by Lloyd’s Register as continued existence in doubt. Reported as being seized at Tripoli in January 1979, and was probably broken up locally in the 1980s.


Ship technical details (PDF)